Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 11:57:16 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Marc Smits <msmits@dds.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vinum error "Can't initialize drive a: Invalid argument" Message-ID: <20031220012716.GS6130@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <1071851660.3fe3288c7e0b7@webmail.dds.nl> References: <1071851660.3fe3288c7e0b7@webmail.dds.nl>
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--NZ00oluAJr3A0NMv Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Computer output wrapped. On Friday, 19 December 2003 at 17:34:20 +0100, Marc Smits wrote: > Hello, > > I am running FreeBSD-4.7-realease and want to create a striped plex > from 2 new 80Gb disks. > > Here's my vinum-description: > drive a device /dev/ad2s1e > drive b device /dev/ad3s1e > volume stripe0 > plex org striped 256k > sd length 78159m drive a > sd length 78159m drive b > > When I run 'vinum create vinum.conf' The message I get is: > 1: drive a device /dev/ad2s1e > ** 1 Can't initialize drive a: Invalid argument > 2: drive b device /dev/ad3s1e > ** 2 Can't initialize drive b: Invalid argument > 0 drives: > 1 volumes: > V stripe0 State: down Plexes: 1 Size: 152GB > > 1 plexes: > P stripe0.p0 S State: faulty Subdisks: 2 Size: 152GB > > 2 subdisks: > S stripe0.p0.s0 State: crashed PO: 0 B Size: 76GB > S stripe0.p0.s1 State: crashed PO: 256 kB Size: 76GB > > I used sysinstall to fdisk and label the partitions. How? IIRC sysinstall won't create a Vinum partition for you. You need to use disklabel, as described in the man page. > What do need to do diffrent to get vinum to use the partitions? That depends on exactly what you've done, but I think it's what I said above. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --NZ00oluAJr3A0NMv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/46V0IubykFB6QiMRAi3QAJ95fu5v1okz9TbB1l0iAzuMUflQ1gCgoM5E gCDGTgfQep72S2nuLTsaPIg= =JY4D -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NZ00oluAJr3A0NMv--
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